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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes

Publishing | Long-troubled manga and anime distributor Central Park Media has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy (liquidation), citing assets of $126,282 and debt of nearly $1.2 million. Founded in 1990, the New York-based CPM played an important role in the growth of anime in the United States.

The company later branched out into manga and manwha with such imprints as CPM Manga, CPM Press and Be Beautiful, but was forced to cut back drastically in 2006 after the bankruptcy of the Musicland retail chain. [Anime News Network, ICv2]

Awards | Online voting is open for comics professionals for the 2009 Eisner Awards. Ballots are due by June 15. [Eisner Awards]

Awards | Three graphic novels have been nominated for the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Awards: Cleburn: A Graphic Novel, by Justin S. Murphy and Al Milgrom; The Soddyssey, And Other Tales of Supernatural Law, by Batton Lash; and Will Eisner’s The Spirit: A Pop-Up Graphic Novel, by Will Eisner and Bruce Foster. The winners will be announced next month during BookExpo America. [IBPA]

Publishing | Just a week after debuting, the much-publicized online serialization of Rumiko Takahashi’s manga Rin-Ne has been delayed because of the Japanese holidays. The new chapter will be released on Saturday. [The Rumic World]

Publishing | John Jackson Miller breaks out the charts and graphs to see how Diamond’s Top 300 comics for March 2009 stands up against previous years. [The Comichron]

Publishing | Scott Allie, senior managing editor of Dark Horse Comics, discusses some of the company’s titles, including The Umbrella Academy and recently announced Green River Killer. [Omnivoracious]